[Testing Update] 2025-05-06 - Kernels, Firefox, Thunderbird, Mesa, Pamac, GTK, Wine

Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Since I’m still recovering from my move back to Europe from Asia, I might be less responsive on the forum. So lets test these packages thoroughly so we can do another stable branch snap.

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Recent News

Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

2025-04-17 - Andrew Crerar

Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository. This change is due to Redis modifying its license from BSD-3-Clause to RSALv2 and SSPLv1 on March 20th, 2024.

Arch Linux Package Maintainers intend to support the availability of the redis package for roughly 14 days from the day of this post, to enable a smooth transition to valkey. After the 14 day transition period has ended, the redis package will be moved to the AUR. Also, from this point forward, the redis package will not receive any additional updates and should be considered deprecated until it is removed.

Users are recommended to begin transitioning their use of Redis to Valkey as soon as possible to avoid possible complications after the 14 day transition window closes.

Arch Linux - News: Valkey to replace Redis in the [extra] Repository

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Notable Package Updates

Additional Info

Python 3.13 info

:information_source: You will need to rebuild any AUR Python packages that install files to site-packages or link to libpython3.12.so.

Print a list of of packages that have files in /usr/lib/python3.12/ :

pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12/

Rebuild them all at once:*

pamac build $(pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/python3.12)

Use rebuild-detector to see if anything else needs to be rebuilt:

 checkrebuild

* It’s recommended to clean your build cache first with pamac clean --build-files

Info about AUR packages

:warning: AUR (Arch User Repository) packages are neither supported by Arch nor Manjaro. Posts about them in Announcements topics are off-topic and will be flagged, moved or removed without warning.

For help with AUR packages, please create a new topic in AUR and a helpful volunteer may be able to assist you.

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Our current supported kernels

  • linux54 5.4.293
  • linux510 5.10.237
  • linux515 5.15.181
  • linux61 6.1.137
  • linux66 6.6.89
  • linux612 6.12.27
  • linux613 6.13.12 [EOL]
  • linux614 6.14.5
  • linux615 6.15-rc5
  • linux61-rt 6.1.134_rt51
  • linux66-rt 6.6.87_rt54
  • linux612-rt 6.12.16_rt9
  • linux613-rt 6.13_rt5
  • linux614-rt 6.14.0_rt3

Package Changes (Tue May 6 12:33:52 CEST 2025)

  • testing core x86_64: 68 new and 68 removed package(s)
  • testing extra x86_64: 2489 new and 2608 removed package(s)
  • testing multilib x86_64: 39 new and 39 removed package(s)

A list of all package changes can be found here.

  • No issue, everything went smoothly
  • Yes there was an issue. I was able to resolve it myself.(Please post your solution)
  • Yes i am currently experiencing an issue due to the update. (Please post about it)
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Known issues and solutions

This is a wiki post; please edit as necessary.
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Please RTFT (Read This Fine Thread) first before reporting the same issues over and over again!

Note: Do not forget to review your .pacnew files:

:arrow_right: 2025-05-06

2025-03-20

System may hang during splash screen when Nvidia 570 drivers are used

A lot of users with older Nvidia cards report system hanging on Plymouth splash screen after installing Nvidia 570 drivers. In the past we had issues with plymouth in general combined with Nvidia drivers. Therefore we didn’t update plymouth in our stable and testing branch.

As a workaround splash could be removed from /etc/default/grub file followed by a update-grub cmd to remove plymouth from starting. Another alternative is to test the newer plymouth and give feedback if that solves the issue:

sudo pacman -U https://mirrors.manjaro.org/repo/pool/overlay/plymouth-24.004.60-12-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

2025-03-05

[community] repo removed from servers

Similar to Arch we removed our [community] repos from our mirrors and servers. You may want to check your pacnew files or manually remove [community] and [kde-unstable] when used in your /etc/pacman.conf file.

2025-02-16

Update only regular repository packages first, no AUR

Follow the best practice of first updating only regular repository packages, followed separately by AUR packages.

  1. Update regular repository packages first with
    • pamac update --no-aur
      or
    • sudo pacman -Syu
  2. Then, if needed, update AUR packages.

Failure to follow this practice may result in the installation of packages that you may not need, and may cause problems. For further details, see:

Keyboard layout issues / Update issues with fcitx5

If a system had sdl2 installed and AUR updates enabled, fcitx5 might be installed as a make dependency

It is recommended to remove fcitx5 and any other orphan packages following the update

pamac remove --orphans

Update issues with fcitx5

Previous testing threads:

138.0 (64-bit)
Release notes
Mozilla Thunderbird for Manjaro LinuxManjaro - 1.0

Nothing about Beta in the ‘Help-About’.

Thanks to the monumental effort of Arch Linux’s Ruby Hero: Andreas Schleifer the ruby version was updated from 3.3.7 to 3.4.3 and all ruby packages rebuilt (as they might have depended of native ruby extensions that have to match the minor Ruby version).

This means you will need to rebuild all AUR packages that depend on ruby/gems as well, since their location on disk has changed.

It’s not without issues either, most notably, gems like pry-byebug (GitHub - deivid-rodriguez/pry-byebug: Step-by-step debugging and stack navigation in Pry) are not compatible as upstream has not worked on compatibility, so if you want to have interactive debugging you will need to switch to ruby’s own debug gem.

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138.0-1 here with German language pack.
Hilfe → Über Thunderbird Beta
within this menu:
“Thunderbird Beta wird entwickelt und …”

In the thunderbird settings:
“Thunderbird Beta-Startseite
Beim Aufrufen von Thunderbird Beta die Startseite anzeigen”

I don’t care about at all, but it is the same here

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Someone on Discord mentioned his KDE Wayland session becoming “borked” after logging into an X11 session, then attempting Wayland again. I don’t know if this might apply to you and, off hand, how to fix it.

Thread tidied. :broom:

Replies by repeat offenders who constantly create their own problems have been removed. They have been reminded multiple times to create their own Support threads.

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I fixed this by uninstalling german language-pack in TB, then in pamac.
Then re-installing Thunderbird without the language-pack;
then installing german language pack using pamac version.

minor topic:
since last update I get this message as an output from
sudo pacman -Syu

Warnung: manjaro-release: Lokale Version (25.0.1-1) ist neuer als core (25.0.0-1)
 Es gibt nichts zu tun

in stable manjaro-release version is indeed 25.0.1-1, in unstable and testing it is 25.0.0-1
No clue why this is on my drive

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Yeah I had a downgrade on that one. I don’t really care, but it’s weird.
[Edit] It’s now 25.0.1 again. ¯\_o_/¯